I’m sure that there are more that 9 reasons to love WordPress as a blogging platform, but here’s the ones that stand out for me:

#9 – Free Themes Galore!
I built my own theme from scratch but I’m not exactly your average blogger either. Do a quick search and you’ll uncover thousands of free themes that can be downloaded and quickly applied to any WordPress Blog. If you’re not a designer, or don’t know how to PHP, then you have a lot of options. If you want to build your own them then there is no shortage of downloadable source code to peruse. Theme Viewer is a great place to start if you’re looking for some inspiration or to download a new theme.
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Up until today I’ve been using an excellent WordPress theme called Unwakeable for this site. I really liked it (and still do). Then it occurred to me that I should probably start “eating my own cooking” and develop my own site templates and theme based on WordPress. After all, that is what I do for a living!

Being a left brainer and a minimalist at heart, I’m afraid I wasn’t able to come up with anything too fancy. Having said that, I kinda like what I’ve ended up with. It will probably evolve significantly over the coming months, but I think I’ll probably stick with this basic look for the foreseeable future. There is still a fair amount of “borrowed” code (the beauty of Open Source!) in the back-end from the default Kubrick template. However, I plan to do some significant customizations so stay tuned. Who knows, maybe I’ll even release it to the public some day…